Friday Snippet: Lady Doctor Wyre

I'm madly revising the holiday novella to get it submitted in time (by July 15th) and I've almost reached the halfway mark.  My goal is to finish this pass by Monday and then work on a brief synopsis and blurb to accompany the submission.  Interested beta readers will hopefully hear from me around Monday.

Skipping ahead a bit from the last excerpt I posted for you, this snippet takes us into the "dark outlaw's" POV that Lady Wyre briefly referenced.  Yes, I know, another assassin, sigh.  But t...